Kyle Heads for Canada; Maine Under Hurricane Watch

For the first time in 17 years, portions of Maine are under a hurricane watch as Kyle roars northward in the Atlantic and set its sights on the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

As of 8 a.m. Eastern, the Category 1 storm was about 225 kilometers (140 miles) south, southeast of Cape Cod. CTV reported that the Canadian Hurricane Centre tracked its northward speed at 35 kilometres per hour (22 mph). “On its path Kyle is forecast to pass just to the west of Yarmouth very late this Sunday evening or very early Monday morning just before making landfall on the New Brunswick coast before dawn Monday,” a CHC bulletin said.

Forecasters also issued a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch Saturday for parts of coastal Maine, where Kyle could cause conditions similar to a New England nor’easter. Boston was getting heavy rain this morning.

“Since Saturday, it has picked up in intensity, but it has also stabilized,” Joseph Hewitt, a Maine-based senior forecaster for the National Weather Service, told USA Today. The newspaper has a detailed tracking graphic of Hurricane Kyle here.

About Jeff Pijanowski

I spent about 30 years as a newspaper editor, mostly at Newsday on Long Island, where I served in various positions ranging from copy editor to a three-year stint as a news editor. I also spent time as the wire editor at the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise, an assistant city editor at the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph and as the editor-in-chief at Central Penn Business Journal. I am a graduate of two (yes, two) buyouts from two different news organizations. After my second buyout, I decided to change professions, and now I am a senior manager at a nonprofit organization. But I still have a keen interest in politics and the media, and I like to keep in touch with my inner-journalist self.